
Messages between two people are not exposed via public APIs, but they can be accessed by admins of 1-2 servers (depending on whether you’re sending these messages to someone on a different server).
Element fixes Lemmy’s message content exposure problem, but none of the metadata problems (who is communicating with whom, when, how often, etc, are all still available to those 1-2 sets of server admins).
Just get a bigger screen. But you can’t buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors… And those smart screens can detect when you aren’t interacting with them and display ads…